Go ahead quote me

Hannah Quinlivan.
Dustin Hoffman.
David Bowie.

"Papa, of course. So when she cries she will call for Papa first and Papa will have to take care of her."

MODEL HANNAH QUINLIVAN, wife of singer Jay Chou, on whether she wants their baby girl to say Mama or Papa first


"Jon Voight brought her over to me and said, 'This is my daughter, Angelina. She was 13 years old, taller than me then, very thin. She said, 'I'm going to be an actress'. And I went home to my wife and said, 'She has a surprise coming, it's not that easy!' But I was wrong and she was right."

DUSTIN HOFFMAN, who first met his 1969 Midnight Cowboy co-star's daughter, Angelina Jolie, decades ago


"It's hard to think of him as history because he was always the future."

FILM-MAKER JULIEN TEMPLE, remembering the late visionary singer David Bowie

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 21, 2016, with the headline Go ahead quote me. Subscribe